OGC Announces Health Mapping Webinar

Contact:

info [at] opengeospatial.org

Release Date:

Wednesday, 29 August 2012 UTC

29 August 2012 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®), in cooperation
with Directions Media, invites the international health mapping community to
participate in a free one-hour webinar on 26 September 2012, at 4:00
pm UTC (11:00 a.m. EST).

This is the fourth GovFuture (http://www.ogcnetwork.net/node/1568) webinar
presented by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and Directions Media. In this
webinar, we look at how improved sharing of geospatial information plays an
important role in improving public health.

Our featured presenter is Eddie Oldfield, BA, Director, NB Climate
Change Hub at the New Brunswick Lung Association. He will describe his work in
coordinating implementation of geospatial interoperability standards to
exchange, integrate, and visualize distributed health and environmental
information. Applications he has studied have addressed chronic illness, public
health resources, critical infrastructure, pollution, meteorological
information, and pandemic surveillance and control.

Eddie Oldfield's current work involves creating a national portal to
bring together climate and health resources for decision-makers in public
health, municipal emergency management, and local climate adaptation. The
portal will aid in expanding public health heat alert and response, community
resilience / disaster risk reduction, and modeling of historical and forecast
impacts from climate on public health. The portal will enable decision-makers
to use diverse data sources through services that implement the OGC Web Map
Service (WMS), Web Feature Service (WFS), and Web Processing Service (WPS)
standards.

This webinar is part of the OGC's GovFuture program for local and
subnational governments. The OGC's affordable GovFuture-Local
Government and GovFuture-Subnational Government membership levels offer local
and sub-national governments unique online resources and an insight into global
geospatial policy and technology developments. This OGC membership level focuses
on the value of using standards to support civil government activities. GovFuture members
have an opportunity to network with their peers worldwide, with representatives
from other levels of government, and with suppliers and universities through
OGC events and communication channels.

About the OGC

The OGC is an international consortium of more than 460 companies,
government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in
a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards. OGC
standards support interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web,
wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT. OGC standards empower
technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible
and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled. Visit the
OGC website at http://www.opengeospatial.org/contact.

About Directions Media

Directions Media's mission is to inform
readers and serve advertisers. Directions Media strives to be the very best resource
for geospatial professionals and information technology workers who want to
understand and capitalize on location-based information. Directions Media was
founded in 1998 as Directions Magazine, which continues to be the flagship
publication. Directions Magazine was the first regularly published online
magazine covering geospatial technology. Today Directions Media maintains
several online publications including Directions Magazine and the All Points
Blog and offers conferences including Location Intelligence and GEO Huntsville.